Chapter 496

The first entrance that was determined was the intersection of Lijia Village and the land outside the village. The trigger point of this entrance was the outermost wall of all the buildings outside the village, and the invisible line connecting the outermost walls of all the buildings on both sides of the road entering Lijia Village near the outer corner of the road. As long as someone crossed this judgment point from outside the village, the person who met the corresponding conditions would be teleported to the village in the time and space of [The End of Zhangjia Village], which was the dead village that Goto Ichiri saw in the first round.

Then the village where the name of the village was not found, only many unburied corpses and invisible dead things existed, was named [The End of Zhangjia Village]. Gao Hai didn't know where this name came from, but it was certain that the place must have a close connection with [Zhangjia], a family that had no trace in the copy.

[Those who have seen the notice and know the rules and encounter paper people, and fail to avoid the paper people in the right way, mean that this person may not be a rule-abiding person, or a stupid person. Such people are very dangerous. They may anger the mountain god or come into contact with the fox demon, so they will be sent to the "rumor" of Liujia Village. As the territory seized by the mountain god from the fox demon, the paper monsters wandering around there can serve as a buffer to help deal with people who may cause trouble. Even if someone encounters a fox demon here, it will not threaten us. At most, we can just give these blood foods to the greedy fox demon. 】

The second entrance is located anywhere outside Lijia Village. Anyone who knows the content of the Lijia Village notice may find this entrance. The entry condition to meet this entrance is very simple, that is, to make the [paper man] you meet realize that you have been discovered and make any interactive behavior of [realizing the existence of the paper man].

This entrance is strictly not controlled by Lijia Village. Its source is another village, that [Liujia Village]. It is the power of Liujia Village that has infiltrated the space where Lijia Village is located. However, this infiltration was used in reverse and was used by these villagers as a screening measure.

These two entrances to villages in other time and space are the entrances discovered by Gao Hai and others in the first round. This time, by sensing some residual information in the village, Gao Hai was able to understand the relevant information of the two entrances more deeply, but at the same time, he also had some doubts in his heart.

The dead village full of corpses was called "the end", and the village with paper people wandering under the night was called "rumors". Do these two different titles reveal the nature of the two spaces to a certain extent? If so, then what is the village inhabited by living villagers that the players arrived at the initial stage called?

Gao Hai's thoughts were soon answered, and some information from the village itself appeared under his mind.

[We can't let others know where we are, and we can't let everyone understand where we are now]

[That abandoned existence can only be "the end of Zhangjia Village", it can only be like that, all other definitions are wrong and are not allowed]

[You will live forever, our Li family will live forever, our family will continue here from generation to generation, this is our "now", this is our "present", not some "end" that has ended, not the final "end"]

It seems to be a conversation that happened a long time ago.

The specific time cannot be determined, and the two parties in the conversation cannot be determined... No, one party can be determined, that is Li Ziyong. The other person who spoke to Li Ziyong was a very old man with an unclear voice, and it sounded like he was not going to live long.

"Now" and "the end"?

More information is no longer available, but just these scattered voices are enough for Gao Hai to think and analyze many things.

There is also a third entrance, which is in an abandoned village next to the lake in the valley. It looks like a very obvious place worth exploring, but it is actually a trap space entrance. Once the player really enters the village, he will be immediately teleported to an extremely dangerous space. Gao Hai cannot clearly perceive that space, but can only feel a vague chaotic scene and a strong and suffocating cold breath.

The fourth entrance is on the way up the mountain. The mountain road leading to the [Ghost Crying Cave] and the road leading to the [Bottomless Lake] can trigger this entrance, but the actual location of triggering this entrance is actually the mountain temple that must be passed on the way to these two places. As long as you pass in front of that temple, this entrance will be triggered, and you will be silently transferred to a very dangerous and terrifying space when you arrive at [Ghost Crying Cave] or [Bottomless Lake].

In the second round, if Gao Hai had been slower, he would have seen how the three players of the Mo Yu Gang were killed. In a sense, it was good that he died faster, at least the others would suffer less.

In short, the third entrance was used by the villagers of Lijia Village to set up a trap, a trap to screen out people who are adventurous and cannot be honest and obedient. The fourth entrance is also a trap in the same way. This is to prevent someone from actually reaching [Ghost Crying Cave] and [Bottomless Lake] from the space on the side of Lijia Village. In other words, Gao Hai's operation to go to the Ghost Crying Cave in the Blood Flower Village in the second round was correct, and the three players of the Mo Yu Gang were on a dead end.

So, is there a fifth entrance?

Gao Hai quickly got the answer and saw the entrance inside the village that he had not noticed before.

So that's it, the location is here. I didn't think of it before, after all, the ancestral hall was too conspicuous, so I naturally ignored the abnormalities around the ancestral hall. So where this entrance leads to... So that's it, it seems necessary to let Zhenfei and the others go into the village to look for it.

At this moment, Shinomiya Kaguya, Goto Ichiri and Fujiwara Chika, who took the first step, have arrived near the entrance of the village.

With the signboard destroyed, no villagers were refreshed around, and the paper man did not appear because Gao Hai adjusted the memories of the three people through blessings, so the three arrived at the entrance of the village very smoothly.

At this time, the chaos of the villagers has not stopped.

More than one-third of the villagers have given up welcoming the players and started to hunt down Li Ziyong.

Through the special perspective after establishing contact with the village, Gao Hai could clearly see a large group of villagers holding sickles, kitchen knives, hoes, rolling pins, manure forks and other things, chasing Li Ziyong who was fleeing in front of them, jumping up and down in the village to block him.

Even though Li Ziyong had shouted to the crowd several times, "Something big has happened, don't continue to catch me", "Stop it, something big has really happened", and "If we don't stop, we will all be finished", no villager was willing to slow down.

To be honest, although the power of blessing is indeed strong, the reaction is so strong that Gao Hai doubts whether Li Ziyong has done something bad to his family members, so that these villagers can react so strongly after being stimulated. This doesn't seem like something that people without deep hatred can do, not to mention that Li Duosun, his younger brother, is mixed in. But then again, I always feel that "Ziyong" and "Duosun" are not names that people of the same generation should use.

Forget it, there is no need to consider such things for the time being.

Let's first settle the accounts of the first round.

Gao Hai closed his eyes and integrated his senses with the village itself more deeply.

He could already feel the [rules] that had infiltrated the village little by little over the long years, and confirmed that he could now change the effective objects of these rules.

After all, the owner of this village now is him, Gao Hai, not others.

Definition modification.

From now on, Shijo Maki, Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Hayasaka Ai and Goto Ichiri are the residents of the village, and all other players are temporarily recognized members of the village, and the original Lijia Village villagers have all been changed to be invited to participate in the welcoming festival and will become guests of the mountain god's sacrifice.

Definition modification is completed and takes effect immediately.

"From now on, this is Gaojia Village, not Lijia Village."

Gao Hai whispered to himself, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers gently.

So the next moment, all the villagers couldn't help but stop and noticed the changes in themselves with horror, realizing that a certain power that had always existed in them suddenly faded, and found that the land under their feet seemed to begin to "reject" them.

I can feel the gaze of the mountain god coming at me in an instant, constantly scanning the entire space to find the target.

But Gao Hai is no longer counted as part of the dungeon, so no matter how the mountain god observes, there is no way to find Gao Hai's location.

That thing... didn't aim its observation at Zhen Fei and others, and even ignored those players who only obtained temporary identities?

Gao Hai, who had originally prepared to transfer Zhen Fei and others, frowned at this time. He noticed that the mountain god completely ignored the players whose identities had changed in the dungeon. Obviously, according to previous observations, this mountain god should have self-awareness, but now it has become like a weird thing that can only mechanically abide by the rules, turning a blind eye to those players who have obtained specific identities that are very inconsistent, and just constantly looking for Gao Hai.

Maybe my previous guess about the mountain god's "schizophrenic and arrogant version of Alice" was not comprehensive?

[Lord Mountain God, please save us! ]

[Lord Mountain God, please save me, please save me! ]

[Lord Mountain God, please don't abandon us! ]

The villagers have already knelt on the ground in tears, howling and screaming, showing terrified expressions.

Being deprived of the privileges of the village rules seems to have brought these guys a strong sense of fear. It is unknown what they are afraid of, so that these people look crazy as if they are about to die.

The next moment, Gao Hai really felt that some kind of power began to modify the rules of the village itself and began to re-endow these villagers with their original identities.

Completely different from the disdain of the mountain god for the villagers that he felt in the first round, the breath of the mountain god that Gao felt at this moment was full of pity and mercy, as if he was really a god full of love.

What is the situation with this [Little Black Mountain God]? !

Gao Hai felt that he could not understand the mountain god more and more, but this did not prevent him from using his newly acquired identity to manipulate. So when the power of the mountain god modified the identities of the villagers and allowed them to regain the rule identity of the villagers of Lijia Village, Gao Hai immediately modified the identities of these villagers for the second time, changing them to [non-guests who entered the village without permission and without invitations], that is, the identity that would trigger the entrance of [the end of Zhangjia Village].

At this time, the villagers inside the village were crying and grateful, constantly kowtowing to the mountain god and thanking the mountain god.

When Gao Hai's modified identity worked again, many villagers were stunned on the spot, and for a while they seemed to not know how to react.

But then they didn't need to think about how they should react, because the triggering of this identity could be completed in an instant. Therefore, after a blink of an eye, all the villagers disappeared directly and were transferred to the space where the dead village was. Lijia Village, which originally had more than a thousand people living in it, instantly became an uninhabited village under Gao Hai's operation.

Chapter 45: The Buried Corpse Well and the Clan Motto of the Li Clan

Today is a confusing day for the players who were forced to enter [Infant Cry Village] because of the props they took.

It was actually quite normal at the beginning. Although many players felt that the density of animals in this primeval forest was a bit too outrageous, and they were very uneasy about the fact that the dungeon started with a very beautiful sunny day, in general, as a Red Moon-level dungeon, [Infant Cry Village] did not increase its strength right from the start, which still made many players feel relieved.

But then, some inexplicable things began to happen.

First, many players heard loud gunshots in front of the dirt road, but when they got closer, they could only see a broken wooden signboard and broken bullets. Moreover, the trajectory of those bullets appeared out of thin air from different directions, and they could not find the person who fired the gun.

Then, two suffocating and terrifying blood lights suddenly burst out from a mountaintop, followed by extremely terrifying explosions and flames that spread for a full kilometer. But strangely, none of the players affected by the violent explosion were injured, even if the blown-up tree trunk hit a player's head directly, it did not cause any damage. It was as if some unknown force blocked the attack and forcibly gave the players invincibility and damage immunity.

What is going on?

Many players were confused and troubled by this and couldn't figure out what was going on.

Some players hesitated and stopped in place, not daring to move forward, and some brave players still plucked up the courage to move forward.

Then, the eyes of the mountain god of Xiaohei Mountain swept over everyone.

Under the cold gaze, no player could resist this gaze head-on. Everyone lost their ability to move under strong paralysis and fear until the mountain god's gaze was withdrawn. In fact, they didn't even know that this was the gaze of the mountain god. After all, these players had not been exposed to any copy intelligence information so far. They were completely watched by the mountain god without knowing anything, and they were in a state of confusion throughout the whole process.

So now more players stopped and hesitated and refused to continue along the road.

At the beginning of the dungeon, there were many inexplicable and incomprehensible abnormal phenomena. For many players who were trapped in the dungeon because of their lack of strength, it was really uneasy. Not to mention that they were forced to enter this dungeon. Everyone more or less knew that the Red Society was almost wiped out here. Therefore, in extreme panic, some players even began to think that there might be some kind of trap on the road ahead, and thought that staying on the dirt road might be dangerous, and then tried to walk into the forest on both sides of the road.

This is not a good choice. Gao Hai, who is in Alice's cabin, can clearly see the small animals hiding in the forest that seem to be harmless. These small things living in the forest turn a blind eye to the players walking on the dirt road, as if they can't see them, but when the players cross the bushes and officially step into the range of the woods, these things shift their attention and begin to pay attention to the players who are gradually approaching.

Gao Hai saw strong bloodthirsty emotions and crazy impulses in the pupils of animals such as deer, squirrels and wild boars.

The birds stopped singing and the insects stopped chirping.

"Hiss!" The crawling snake also stopped, raised its head and stood up to look at the intruders.

One after another, animals, whether they were herbivores or carnivores, stopped in a daze, waiting for the players to get closer.

The dangerous atmosphere was spreading, but the intruders were still unaware. Many players took out various exploration obsessions, but they never got any effective feedback. Whether it was to detect strange things, detect malice, or detect the power of obsessions, there was no way to sense the abnormalities gradually emerging from those animals. After all, although these things were getting more and more wrong, they could still be considered as living things in terms of aura, so they would not trigger the feedback of exploration obsessions under normal circumstances.

However, including malicious perception obsessions and blessings, there was no reaction either?

He didn't pay much attention to these animals in the first two weeks. If Lao Guo hadn't been killed by a deer, Gao Hai estimated that he might not have noticed the problems of these animals until the third week. Before, Hayasaka just thought that there was a problem with the too high density of animals here. Now it seems that these things are not normal animals at all, and he doesn't know what they are.

Gao Hai has no way to stop these players who choose to step into danger. Although he now has control over [Lijia Village] through the land deed, the scope of effect of this authority is limited to the interior of the village, and it will no longer take effect once he leaves the village. However, after hesitating for a moment, Gao Hai still used his grown mental power to send a message to the surrounding players, telling them that "reaching the village along the dirt road is the only safe way. Do not enter the forest and do not try to contact it." animals], and then focused more attention on Kaguya and others who were about to enter the village.

As for how many players will walk out of the forest and return to the road after hearing his words, that is beyond Gao Hai's control, and it is not what he cares about. Although it was precisely because he destroyed the signboard and made a lot of noise that caused these players to make wrong choices, he would not delay investigating the village in order to save these players at this time. After all, Gao Hai didn't actually think that this project could survive safely and be successfully cracked. He had a vague hunch that he might have to redo this mission many times.

{Hmm... My head hurts... I feel like my body is falling apart... It feels like several months have passed... I have been... stuck in one place unable to move...}

Kita Ikuyo's somewhat painful voice sounded from the side, and the girl's condition has not recovered until now. It seems that because the spiritual connection with Gao Hai is too close, even though Gao Hai has cleared part of her memory, some painful feelings from the last week still remain in her consciousness. But now her figure has gradually become clearer from blur, and it is estimated that she will be able to recover in a while.

Well, by the way, due to her poor mental state and difficulty in condensing her consciousness normally, the red-haired girl was not able to materialize clothes at this time. As for this scenery, how should I evaluate it so that it looks more professional... I can only say that it has the beauty of a legal lolita.

{Ah Hai, we have entered the village. We have not seen any villagers, nor have we sensed any abnormal aura. The glance that glanced around just now has disappeared, well, and Kaguya-san and Ichiri-san both feel that we have entered a safe area. Is this what Ahai did? }

Fujiwara Chika's spiritual link was introduced into Gao Hai's consciousness at this time. Because Gao Hai was in Alice's cabin at this time, spiritual link obsessions had no way to penetrate this space gap, so they could only possess it through The thousand flowers linked by the black watch can be used for conversation.

{I have modified the definition of your status in the village. Now theoretically, as long as you are in the village, you will not encounter any danger. But even so, we still have to be careful. After all, we are outsiders here, and we are not yet sure whether the villagers have left any behind in the village. By the way, don’t touch the animals in the village, whether it’s chickens, ducks, cats, dogs or other animals, there’s something wrong with the animals in this instance}

Gao Hai quickly communicated with Qianhua through spiritual links and guided her in the direction of her destination.

At the same time, Zhen Fei and Hayasaka in the rear had also caught up with the three in front. The five girls gathered together and went deep into the village, directly towards the [Li Family Courtyard], where Li Ziyong and Li Duo Advance to where Sun and others live. This is the place where only the clan leaders of Lijia Village are eligible to live. Unlike the surrounding earthen houses, most of the buildings here are wooden buildings, and there are courtyards that cover a large area. You can see the difference in dignity at a glance. . Gao Hai had carefully observed this place before and confirmed that this [Li Family Courtyard] was the place he and Mianzi saw together when the previous copy invaded the real world.

However, compared with the Li family compound that I saw at that time, the current building is obviously not so gloomy and weird, and there are no wedding processions or funeral processions popping up on both sides of the road.

Perhaps, the twisted and weird Li Family Courtyard under the night can only be seen after this space enters the night state. Or, that place is actually in another space, not the same as the Li family compound that was discovered at this moment.

While thinking, the girls had opened the door and entered the courtyard.

It is obviously a village located in a poor and remote virgin forest, but the yard has been built into a pretty small garden. There is even a relatively simple pavilion, rockery and pond in it.

A huge banyan tree is in the center of the courtyard, with a height of more than ten meters. The huge tree provides shade, making the entire Li family compound look even more eerie.

Hayasaka Ai, who was walking at the end, turned around, looked at the long dirt road outside the gate, and closed the door casually.

Qianhua had already walked behind the banyan tree and found what Gao Hai had indicated.

That's a well.

A well that was sealed with stones, the ground was filled in, and covered with loess.

If Gao Hai hadn't been able to directly observe every corner of the village through the land deed, he probably wouldn't have found the well easily. But now that they knew in advance that there was something here, the girls quickly dug up the soil and removed the stones, revealing the originally sealed well again.

{Wow, it’s too cold here}

"Ah chirp——"

The moment the well was dug, a strong chill was released from the dark well, causing Qianhua who was nearest to shiver and then sneeze.

{The well is very deep, at least ten meters deep. Inside...well, there is a corpse inside}

The real concubine came up carefully, took out a signal stick, lit it and threw it down, and then saw the thing at the bottom of the well.

{What kind of corpse is it? }

Gao Hai asked in the spiritual link. Although he could sense the existence of the well, the things in the well did not belong to the [category] of the village, and it also had some weird partitioning effect. Therefore, Gao Hai had to pass through other people. The description of the well can determine the situation inside the well.

{It should be a female corpse, stuck head down in the water, the spine has been broken. I can't see the specific appearance clearly, but I can confirm that the body is swollen, the hair is very long, the black hair almost covers the water surface, and the hair is tangled everywhere on the body. Well, she seems not to be wearing any clothes, but there are some dark red marks on her body. I can’t tell whether it’s the color of her clothes or her skin. There’s too much dirt on her body, and it’s all black and mud-like... }

The true concubine frowned and slowly described the body in the well through the spiritual link. Beside her, Kaguya and Ichiri were on careful alert, wary of the body suddenly jumping up from the water or any abnormality happening around the yard.

But in the end, until Zhenfei finished describing the thing and Hayasaka moved the stone to cover the well mouth, the body in the water just lay motionless under the well, without any sign of movement.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone does not need to care about this body. After all, according to Gao Hai's perception, the bottom of this well is the last teleportation entrance hidden in [Lijia Village]. Through here, you can enter a new place that is completely different from the village space that appeared in the first and second rounds.

In other words, if you want to pass through this entrance, you must fish out the body.

Gao Hai was quite skeptical that something bad would happen when he retrieved the body. After all, the cold atmosphere that filled the well didn't look like a joke.

For now, don't rush to deal with the body for the time being. The investigation of clues in the village has not yet been completed.

{Woo... I feel like I have had a long nightmare... Mr. Gao, woo, where is this place? What happened before...? }

Kita Ikuyo recovered at this time, and approached Gao Hai with some confusion and asked.

"Just think of it as a nightmare. Ahem, and pay attention to the image. Although I am the only one who can see it, it is still not good."

Gao Hai just turned his head to look at Kita and immediately turned away, reminding him very politely.

Then, when the red-haired girl realized her current situation and screamed in sorrow, one of Goto Ichiri's clones stepped into the main house of the Li family compound, went all the way to the second floor lobby, and found the hanging A piece of thick paper here.